An Authentic Gift Fair In-House!

MC News
May 2014
An Authentic Gift Fair In-House!
The Teen Room at the Georgia location was
converted into a real department store on
Saturday, May 3rd for our 1st Annual
Mother’s Day Gift Fair. It was a lovely
event!
There were good options for Mother’s Day:
jewelry, clothing, natural products, food
demonstrations, and handbags, in addition to
a popular ‘make-your-own jewelry’ workshop.
We want to thank our board member Lucero Ortiz (top far left), for her commitment to help us raise
funds. Thank you also to those who attended and supported the event!
As always, our Development team
did a great job with one of the most
‘fun’raisers of the year: Taste of
Adams Morgan on April 29th.
The food of the 15 participating
restaurants was absolutely delicious,
and we sold more than 500 tickets.
These 2 wonderful women have been the heart and
soul supporting our development folks in the
planning of Taste of Adams Morgan for the last 2
years. Thank YOU Sefika Kurt (left), owner of the
Little Shop of Flowers on 18th St., and Kristen
Barden, Executive Director, Adams Morgan
Partnership BID.
May, 2014
Our Health Promotion team has done a
tremendous job in recruiting people every
year to attend the Susan G. Komen Global
Race for the Cure.
This year (our 8th one), they recruited over
80 people (staff and participants), half of
which walked and the other half ran. They
all had a great time!
We’ve received several grants from the Susan G.
Komen Foundation throughout the years. Currently,
we were granted $200,000 for 2 years to continue
our work with breast health education, screenings,
and navigating women to appropriate care and
treatment if diagnosed or suspected with breast
cancer.
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540 guests
Great job Health Promotion and thank you to all who attended and
represented Mary’s Center!
DC has 50 new potential daycare owners thanks to our
wonderful Child Care Licensing Program, which
provides all the training and
technical assistance to achieve this
goal.
The graduation took place on April 25th. We had 20 graduates from
the English course (above), and 30 from the Spanish course (below).
Since 2001 when we started the
project, more than 100 daycare
centers have opened in the
District with our assistance, and
nearly 50 more are currently
waiting for their license to start
operating.
A special recognition to Gracia de
Paula, Program Manager, for her
love and dedication to the program
and the students, and to her team
Violeta Chirino, Cory Mengual, and Wendy Guardado, for
their valuable work!
TAE KWON DO CLASSES
Thanks to an initiative of the Father-Child
Program, children ages 6-12 will be able to
attend Tae Kwon Do Classes at Mary’s Center
for FREE.
Classes will be all Saturdays starting May 31st at
the Georgia location. For more information
contact Oliany Mendez X 7168 or Carlos
Merchan X 6825.
May, 2014
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540 guests
Eliza Ruggiero, Volunteer Coordinator, also in charge
of all in-kind donations has been extremely busy with
our partnership with
which gives us to $0.10
cts. per donated pound.
Since the partnership started back in December we’ve
collected almost 22,000 pounds.
Thank you to those of you who’ve been cleaning your
closets and asking your friends and relatives to do the
same. Please, keep doing it. Good Job Eliza!!!
If you want to donate, you can either bring your items to the Ontario location where we
have bins, or call for a home pick-up at no cost at 1-855-250-3146.
Thanks to the help of St. Patrick’s School, Mrs. Carolyn Harris and her
daughter Callie, Mary’s Center supporters, and St Patrick’s Brownie Troop
Volunteers, we had a really successful Book Drive during the month of April.
In total, we collected more than 1,500 books, which are now in the waiting
rooms of all of our locations, and some additional areas.
Boxes were set up at St Patrick’s, Mary’s Center locations, and Washington Fin
Properties in Georgetown.
Thank you to those of you who contributed!
Seven fellows from the Rumsfeld Foundation
(former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s
foundation), visited Mary’s Center before they
went back to their countries on May 9th.
They enjoyed touring our Georgia location and
talking to Maria.
The fellows came for a 6-week fellowship program
from Armenia, Mongolia, Azerbaijan, Georgia,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and
Uzbekistan. The Foundation’s executive director
and other staff members joined them during the
tour.
DID YOU KNOW that we’ve also received foreign visitors
interested in learning about Mary’s Center from Russia, Japan,
Burma, Korea, China, Belgium, Spain, Africa, Ecuador, El
Salvador, Colombia, Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, and Brazil?
May, 2014
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Week of May 5th
We thank our extraordinary nurses for all of
the wonderful work they do every day!
Here are 6 of our nearly 15 nurses celebrating
during a happy hour organized by Dara
Koppelman, Chief Nursing Officer!
At the medical education day held on Friday
May 1st, people were asked to bring in a dish,
and everyone voted on who had the best dish
in different categories (entrée, dessert,
appetizer, salad, store bought), and here are
the winners:
Jasciry Nunez Erik Gomez
(Georgia MA1) (Flower MA1)
Maira Elias
(Ontario MA3)
Please join us in congratulating the following staff members
for their anniversary of work at Mary’s Center in the month
of May. Thank you for these years of service.
8 years of service:
3 years of service:
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Amima Mejia
 Mireille Wotcho
6 years of service:
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Ramesh Herath
Enrique Renteria
4 years of service:

Richard Gesker
1 year of service:
Negede Mengesha  Micaela Acuna
 Yolis Cedeno
 Mita Patel
 Yolanda Randolph  John Gonzalez
 Sonia Moran
2 years of service:
 James Ortega
 Elizabeth Bonilla
 Cindy Reyes
 Alejandra Lopez
 Siomara Segovia
 Kara Lowinger
 Benjamin Siegelman
 Yesenia Palacios
Left to right:
Margie Badman (Georgia RN), Katie Shannon (Adelphi Midwife), Dr. Amal Gubara (Georgia Pediatrician), Joan Mesa
(Clinical Administrative Assistant). Each one received baskets with nice small gifts.
During the medical education meeting, all clinicians also received a really nice business card holders with their names
as a recognition for their hard work during the last months.
May, 2014
Happy Birthday-May
May 1 Alison Coleman (Family Assessment Worker)
Welcome
A warm welcome our new family members. They are
(left to right):
May 1 Cynthia Gutierrez (Clinical Care Coord.)
May 1 Dara Koppelman (Chief Nursing Officer)
May 1 Lourdes Majano (Facilities Worker)
May 2 Enrique Renteria (Facilities Worker)
May 4 Thomas Gerkin (Briya Ass. & Admin. Coord.)
May 4 Yany Vanderhorst Martinez (Medical Assistant)
May 5 Elizabeth Bonilla (Medical Assistant II)
Standing:

Taylor Walls (HFA Family Support Worker)
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May 5 Richard Gesker (Chief Dental Officer)
Mia Morrison (HFA Program Manager)

Joyia Lucas (HFA Family Support Worker)
May 5 Yolanda Mendoza (Briya-Early Childhood Assistant)

Jenny Gomes (HFA Family Support Worker)
May 5 Marisa Parella (MH/Child Adolescent Manager)

Ruth Perez (Dental Front Desk and Hygiene Floater)
May 9 Tsehay Gebretsadik (Medical Records Assistant)

Brenda Perdomo (Dental Assistant Intern)
May 10 Glenda Corado (Medical Assistant II)

Martha Hernandez (Phone Operator)

Ivette Diaz (Front Desk Receptionist/PBS)
May 10 Haley Robertson (Briya—Administrative Coord.)
May 11 Emelia Orhin (Controller)
May 12 Georgette Saad (Mental Health Therapist)
May 13 Cheryl Focht (Pediatrician)
 Nerally Cabrera (Referrals Specialist)
Sitting:

Penny Butler (Community Health Worker)

Gloria Jurado (Community Health Worker)
May 14 Katherine Cabieses (Family Support Worker)

Lisette Amparo-Javier, (Community Health Worker)
May 15 Mita Patel (CCIN CCS Implementation Specialist)

Gloria Payton (Community Health Worker)
May 15 Rosa E. Goyes (Health Promotion Manager)

LaSharon Bartley (Community Health Worker)
May 15 Sulma Villalta (Phone Operator)

Shanelle Gayden (Community Health Worker)
May 16 Carolina Carvajal (HR Manager)
May 16 Elsa Romero (CCIN Community Health Worker)
May 17 Carlos Carcamo (Medical Assistant II)
Congratulations for their
recent promotion:
May 17 Lynne Zaris (Senior Grants Writer)
May 18 Maria Iglesias (Mental Health Therapist)
May 18 Fernanda Ruiz (Home Visiting Assessment Manager)
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Cory Mengual- Child Care Licensing Program Coordinator

Jose Majano- Life Cycle Health Educator & Training’s
Coordinator
May 21 Maribel Juarez-Escamilla (Briya- Early Childhood)

Andrea Lozada- Outreach Worker- Child Find Program
May 22 Silvia F. Llanos (Medical Assitant II)

Paige Reuber- Adult Education Instructor and Coordinator

Jennifer Cisneros- MA II

Janey Canales- MA II

Erika McGee- Home Visiting Program Manager

Alex Martinez- Data Entry Administrator

Roxana Turcios-Diaz- Referrals Tracking Specialist II
May 19 Ana Rosas (Program Assistant)
May 20 Jessica Schroeder (Pediatrician)
May 23 Trinidad E Sabath (Referrals Coordinator)
May 24 Ramesh Herath (MIS Director)
May 26 Blanca Mejia (Facilities Worker)
May 27 Carla Cornejo (Dental Higienist)
May 29 Gloria Segovia-Nawn (Front Desk Receptionist)
May 30 Taylor Walls (Family Support Worker)
May 31 Lyda Vanegas (Dir. Advocacy and Communications)
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